Overview
A favicon is a small image usually displayed in the browser tab that represents your site or your brand. To add a favicon to your site, first create a 32x32px PNG and then link to it in your document <head>.
For example, in the tab for this site you should see a small chicken head.
The format of the favicon image must be either a PNG, GIF, or ICO (e.g, favicon.png, favicon.gif, favicon.ico ). Though it can be named anything, it’s typically named favicon to keep things simple.
The <link> contains three attributes. The rel attribute tells the browser this is the icon for this page, the type attribute tells it that it’s a favicon, and the href attribute provides the image’s location in the file structure.
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="Free Web Tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL">
<meta name="author" content="1SMARTchicken">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Advanced HTML Template</title>
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/images/favicon.png">
<!-- styles -->
<!-- scripts -->
</head>Note
In the example above, we placed the <link> to the favicon just after the <title> tag. The positioning isn’t important, but this keeps things neat and organized in our <head>.
HTML Notes:
- In our HTML section the term “tag” and “element” are often used interchangeably to refer to both the tag used to create a page element and the element created by the tag (<p> tag = <p> element = paragraph on the page)
- HTML5 is not case sensitive; so <P> is the same as <p>, <H1> is the same as <h1>
- Global attributes can be used with all HTML tags and are therefore not mentioned on every tag page
- To write clean, readable HTML code, it is best to use indentation whereas elements within elements are indented (tabbed or spaces) to create something that looks like a project outline
- The browser will automatically remove any extra spaces and lines in your HTML code when the page is displayed
- Double quotes or single quotes can be used around HTML attribute values, but when the attribute value itself contains one form of quote, it will be necessary to use the other around the attribute
We’d like to acknowledge that we learned a great deal of our coding from W3Schools and TutorialsPoint, borrowing heavily from their teaching process and excellent code examples. We highly recommend both sites to deepen your experience, and further your coding journey. We’re just hitting the basics here at 1SMARTchicken.